Glide Fire Chief Dan Tilson stands beside a storage bay Monday overlooking the emergency vehicles parked in the new Glide fire station. The extra bays in the new station will free firefighters from double-parking vehicles, as was the case in the cramped, older station.

Gage Damewood, 10, dips his brush into a bucket before scrubbing the front of an ambulance Monday in front of the new Glide fire station. While work remains on a section of parking lot in front and other details, the new fire station is completely operational.

With heavy equipment and pieces of broken parking lot visible in the foreground, Glide Fire Chief Dan Tilson and Ted Damewood move a ladder in front of the new Glide Fire Station on Monday. The old station, built in 1976, was only 6,000 square feet and had undergone several additions.